Oil-press.



No. 687 ,63|. Patented Nov.. 26, l90l. F. A. JONES & E. a. KASTE-NHUBER.

OIL PRESS.

' (Application filed Mar. 2s, 1901.

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No. 687,63l. Patented Nov. 26, mm.

F. A. JONES &. E. G. KASTENHUBER.

OIL PRESS.

(Application filed Mar. 23, 1901.)

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OIL PRESS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED A. JONES, OF SCHENEOTADY, NEW YORK, AND EDWIN G. 'KASTEN- HUBER, OF BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

OIL-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 687,631, dated November 26, 1901.

Application filed arch 23, 1901. Serial No. 52,6 801*- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that We, FRED A. JONES, residing at Schenectady, in the county of Schenectady and State of New York, and EDWIN G. KASTENHUBER, residing at Bloomfield, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, citizone of the United States,have invented new and useful Improvements in Oil-Presses, of which the following is a specification.

By means of this invention such material as cotton-seed and other substance can be cooked and pressed, so that the oil can be extracted and the cake or residue passed in compact form to a grinding-mill or be otherwise disposed of.

The invention resides in the novel features of construction set forth in the following specification and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which-- V Figure l is a sectional side elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is a section along 00 m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows the manner of jointing troughs or boxes to a belt.

I In the drawings is shown a stationary heating-cylinder A, inclosing a heating coil or pipe D. This cylinder is shown in the concentric shells or cylinders O and B, which are fastened together and rotate on idlers d by means of sprocket or teeth E and chain or link belt 0. The cylinders are placed in housing H, and the heater or steam-coil D being continued out of the inner heating-cylinder into the housing the latter will be suitably warmed or heated. The meal or material being fed through hopper F and entering shell C is fed along therein by blades or spirals to the exits 1. A series of holes-say four in number-with a corresponding number of blades has been found efficient, and the material leaving this shell 0 through exit 1 enters the outer shell 13, having a similar feeder or blade arrangement to feed the material to exit or holes 2. To prevent the material gathering at the end or head M of cylinder C, a guide flange or frustum shaped end piece K is inserted, so that the material will not clog at this end of the cylinder, but leave through exit 1. The shells B O are also shown held separate and strengthened by ring L, and being connected these shells B C rotate together. terial passes along hopper or trough G to a compressed mechanism orhopper N, provided with a suitable feeding mechanism comprising shaft n with blades or screw m. Rotating mechanism or gears for the shaft are shown at Z, and by this feeding arrangement the meal is delivered and lightly packed into the spaces or compartments on belt 0, formed by angle-irons P, riveted or secured at suitable intervals on said belt. This latter it is found is practically made of sheet iron or steel, which is durable and also sufliciently flexible. This belt having suitable sides or flangepieces R with cross pins or sprockets is adapted to engage with the sprocket-wheels or drums S and S, and one of these Wheels being suitably driven will feed the belt. The pins of these drums are indicated at 3. Secured along the sides of the belt are screens or strainers T, which confine the meal, so that it cannot escape laterally while allowing liquid or oil to pass off. A simple construction is to have the strainers T on a suitable fixed support and the belt moving therebetween. The compression cylinder or wheel U is shown notched, such notches being spaced to correspond to the partitions P, and a quantity or mass of material contained between said partitions is compressed or caked by the wheel or drum U, which rotates in correspondence with the belt, so that the travel of the latter need not be intercepted. Though We have simply alluded to one compressing-wheel we have shown a plurality thereof and will describe hereinafter their purpose. A series of rollers X 011 a bed W being suitably mounted at the compressorwheel U will sustain the belt, so that the material is firmly pressed by Wheel U. The oil or expressed matter flowing off along trough Y is received by a suitable tank or reservoir, and the cakes passing off drurn'S' to chute or trough Z can be led to a grinding-mill or disposed of as called for.

This machine can be so regulated that the raw meal can be passed through the spiral cylinder at any speed and cooked to suit condition of same, and by using a series of two or more of the rollers U each arranged closer Leaving at exit 2 the mato its supporting-bed RV and the latter suitably lengthened or extended than its predecessor any amount of pressure desired can be brought to bear and every particle of oil extracted from the seed. The bearings of the roller U can be also made adjustable to set the same at any distance from the bed' W,

thus offering additional facilities for regu-' lating the amount of pressure, if found necessary. A supporting bracket or bed can be placed directly under the belt at mouth of hopper N, if desired.

Instead of a set of partition-plates P a series of troughs or boxes could be linked or pivotedto the belt or carrier 0. Such arrangement is indicated'at P in Fig. 3.

As the partitions Pspread or flare in passing about drum S, the cakes on belt 0 are not liableto stick or adhere, but will drop onto trough Z. A brush or ejector might, however, be applied in suitable well-known manner to scrape or eject the cakes 01f the under side of drum S onto said trough Z. Such ejector will be advisable in case troughs or boxes are used in place of partitions P, as

- the ends of such boxes would not flare or separate.

The belt 0 or bottom of the boxes or spaces P might be perforated or formed as a strainer in addition to or in place of the lateral strainers T.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An oil-press comprising a partitioned belt, a notched compression-drum made to fit the partitions and to rotate in accordance with the belt, and troughs for respectively carrying 01f the liquid and solid material from the belt, said belt havinglateral screens or strainfluid to pass off the belt, substantially as de scribed.

3. An oil-press, comprising a partitioned belt, a series of notched compression-drums made to fit the partitions and to rotate in accordance with the belt and set at varying distances from the latter to give graduated pressure, and troughs for respectively carrying off the liquid and solid matter from the-belt, said belt having lateral screens or strainers for confining thesolid matter while allowing the fluid to pass olf the belt, substantially as described. v

4. An oil-press comprising a series of straining boxes or partitions,a notched compressiondrum for compressing the material in the boxes, and troughs for respectively receiving and carrying ofl the solid and liquid material substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRED A." JONES. EDWIN G. KASTENHUBER. Witnesses:

W; O. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

